Re: [suse-sparc] trying to compile 2.4.16 kernel on Sparc LX ..

From: Francis Demierre (Francis_at_Swissmail.com)
Date: Sun Jun 09 2002 - 14:31:09 CEST

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From: "Francis Demierre" <Francis@Swissmail.com>
Date: Sun, 9 Jun 2002 14:31:09 +0200
Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] trying to compile 2.4.16 kernel on Sparc LX ..

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    From: "Ingo T. Storm" <suse-sparc@computerbild.de>
    To: "Francis Demierre" <Francis@Swissmail.com>
    Cc: "suse sparc" <suse-sparc@suse.com>
    Sent: Sunday, June 09, 2002 9:50 AM
    Subject: Re: [suse-sparc] trying to compile 2.4.16 kernel on Sparc LX ..

    > > BTW: I am trying to recompile the kernel because my machine litteraly
    > > crawls on its knees with the "out-of-the-box" Suse 7.3 installation.
    >
    > You aren't using KDE, are you? That needs a LOT of memory. Please try
    > WindowMaker, XFCE or some other lightweight desktop/wm combo.
    >
    > I run WindowMaker on all my sun4m machines and they feel fine;-)
    >
    > Ingo

    ahem ... YES Ingo I was running KDE ... I will try another one.
    Surely KDE is awfully slow on this LX with 32Megs ...

    I was trying to compile the Kernel and it was crawling to .. I will
    disable Xwindows all together and try compile see if gets any better.

    Which utility should I use to really see what is going on with
    memory and swap allocation ? Tried vmstat but that's a bit cryptic to me !

    Tks for your help.
    Francis 

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